In all the impressive corpus directed replies that I've seen, a simpler
etymological point has been forgotten. The English word "anniversary" is
derived from the Latin "annus" meaning year and "versis", return. Hence
"year anniversary" is strictly speaking a tautology and not to be
encouraged. The fact that people use it won't impress people who know that
origin.
Chris
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